Walter Donway is a new poet for our time. His poetry deals with current events, conflicts and aspirations, but it does so using all the resources of the enduring poetic forms: rhyme, meter, epic storytelling, drama, satire and song. Donway rejects obscurity without sacrificing depth; he rejects free verse without sacrificing richness of rhythm. This book is for those who love the music of language that ignited our interest in poetry as children, and for those who long for poetry in the great tradition that also speaks to us today.
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Walter Donway is a professional writer and editor. He founded and edited the quarterly journal Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science under the editorial eagle eye of the legendary language maven, William Safire. He is a trustee of The Atlas Society, a non profit organization in Washington, D.C., devoted to the philosophy of Ayn Rand. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commonwealth, Iowa Review, The New Individualist, Cosmopolitan, Medical World News, Newsday and Occassional Review, to name a few. He is a contributor to Poet's House in New York City and a member of the East End Poets. He divides his time between New York City and East Hampton on Long Island.
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A Dazzling Poetic Accomplishment,
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Reports of poetry's death have been greatly exaggerated. Proof of life arrives afresh in Walter Donway's exquisite new book, Touched By Its Rays. The title is taken from a line in Atlas Shrugged: "...and should you die without reaching full sunlight, you will die on a level touched by its rays..." These words splash across an opening page of this collection, and you understand immediately that this is a poet who means to aim high.
The poems cover a wide variety of subjects, and have a pleasant quality of unpredictability. He doesn't write the same poem over and over. Each represents some new twist of thought. He doesn't always come to a firm conclusion as a result of his explorations. Sometimes the way a poem ends is not with a statement but with a question. "Just Wondering," for example, is a humorous meditation on the current state of the mind/body debate. Are we merely computers made of meat, as many materialists would have it, or is there something more substantial to the notion of human spirit? It has been a long time since I enjoyed a new book of poetry this much. Walter Donway has tossed his discus high and far. I can only hope that Touched By Its Rays is seen, and read, by lovers of poetry around the world. And if by chance you only "sort of like" poetry, I recommend it to you as well. Relentlessly intelligent, contemporary in language and topic, Donway brings the music of words boldly up to date for the 21st Century.
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Dances with Words,
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This is as good as any book of poetry I've ever read. God! how I hate poetry!
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Real poetry. Rhyme, rhythm, imagery, emotion.,
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I long for new poetry that IS poetry. Not blank verse, not endless imagery. This is the real deal. Some of Donway's poems moved me deeply; all impressed me. This is pure joy to have discovered.
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